QCNet Web Site Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Policy outlines Bio-Rad's practices regarding the collection and use of individually identifiable information ("Personal Data") that Bio-Rad collects about you on or via www.qcnet.com, www.bio-rad.com and its regional sites, such as www.bio-rad.it or www.bio-rad.au (collectively, the "Site"). This Policy does not apply to other data or processing practices, such as data collected offline or via other web pages (which may have their own privacy statements).

If and when our Privacy Policy changes in any material or substantive way (such as any new uses of your Personal Data), the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this Site and the Effective Date will be updated.

1. We May Collect Personal Data When You Browse the Site

When you visit the Site, we use cookies to store your preferences, to alert you to new areas that we think might be of interest to you, and to record past activity at the Site in order to provide better service. We also use cookies to store your country selection so that when you revisit the Site, the cookie recognizes your country and you do not need to select it again. You must enable cookies in your browser settings to use the Site. Cookies are small data files that our servers place on your computer's hard drive via your internet browser. Cookies will collect and process your IP address and domain name. Information provided by cookies can be read or modified afterwards only by Bio-Rad during your subsequent visits to our Site. You may configure your browser to notify you when it is about to place a cookie on your machine and you can then decide if you want to accept the cookie or not. The exact procedure will vary from browser to browser. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, if you choose not to accept cookies, you will not be able to use the Site. Bio-Rad generally stores cookies for one year after your last visit to the Site.

2. We Collect Personal Data When You Complete Online Forms

You may access the vast majority of the information on our Site without having to fill out an online collection form.

There are areas of the Site that require you to register or complete forms so that we can provide you with services or items you request; for instance, online purchasing, eOrdering, online quote requests, event/seminar registrations, and software downloads. Information that you provide on these online forms may include your name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and your interests in certain Bio-Rad products, product lines, or services. If you avail yourself of the benefits of full registration in countries where we offer e-commerce, you will also need to provide payment information and a valid Bio-Rad account number. We do not collect any sensitive data such as health-related information. Our collection of Personal Data when you complete any online registration or other Personal Data collection form at this Site is subject to this Privacy Policy.

3. How We Use Personal Data You Provide

The Personal Data you provide through online collection forms may be used by Bio-Rad to provide you with the products, materials, and services you request, as well as:

To improve, maintain, and protect our Site and to ensure that the content is relevant to your needs and preferences;

To enable you to view the local list prices (available for selected countries) and post your comments on our bulletin boards;

To respond to any other inquiries or requests that you might make;

To notify you about updates to our Site;

To conduct market, customer, and general business analysis for Bio-Rad’s internal use, and

To improve and/or develop our products, materials, and services.

The Personal Data, if any, collected through cookies may be used by Bio-Rad as set forth in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy. If you do not provide your personal data to Bio-Rad we will not be able to provide you with the products, materials and services you request or the additional services listed above.

4. Categories of Recipients to Which Your Personal Data May Be Transmitted

Your Personal Data is held in confidence and never provided to any organization outside of the Bio-Rad group except as noted in this Privacy Policy.

We may provide Personal Data to third parties in connection with fulfilling or processing your specific requests. For example, if you purchase products online using a credit card, we will contact that credit card company or its third-party service provider to process the order, and we will use a third-party shipping company to ship your order or other requested items such as our print catalog or literature. To enhance security, your credit card number is encrypted as it is transmitted over the Internet.

We do not provide Personal Data that you supply to us to third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may provide Personal Data on a reasonable need-to-know basis to third parties bound by nondisclosure obligations. These third parties may be assisting us with the maintenance, protection, or operation of our Site and may work in connection with website, market, or business analysis conducted on our behalf for our use only. We may also provide Personal Data to third parties, who are bound by nondisclosure obligations, assisting us with marketing functions and data management. Any changes in these categories of recipients will be made only after the notification process set forth in the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

We may share Personal Data with law enforcement or other entities as required or permitted by law. Personal Data may also be disclosed to third parties, who are bound by nondisclosure obligations, in connection with a Bio-Rad merger, acquisition, or sale.

We may monitor internally, or using third-party tools, how a user accesses or navigates the Site by tracking IP addresses or other "click stream data". In order to improve this Site and our service to you, we currently use the Webtrends On Demand product to track Site usage. The On Demand product enables us to evaluate Site traffic and navigation data so that we can, for instance, see which pages of our Site are visited frequently, and which are not. You can find Webtrends On Demand Privacy Policy here:
ondemand.webtrends.com

We may also use or provide nonidentifiable data to third parties in order to perform market or business analysis, on our behalf and for our internal use. This ultimately helps us to improve our services to you.

If you choose to register at our Site, you must provide your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and therefore, to Bio-Rad's disclosure of your Personal Data to the third parties, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Bio-Rad uses and discloses information only in connection with legitimate business purposes, and therefore, if you do not consent, you will not be able to register at our Site.

5. Transfer to Recipients Outside of Your Home Country

Some of our subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, or recipients outlined above are located or operate outside of your home country, and therefore, we may need to transfer your Personal Data outside of your home country for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. The data protection laws in these countries may not provide an equivalent level of protection to those in your home country, but the recipients will abide by this Privacy Policy, as well as any other applicable laws. In addition, all recipients of your Personal Data will adhere to an adequate level of security as required by the laws of your home country. If you choose to register at our Site, you must provide your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, including this paragraph. Please note that if you do not consent, you will not be able to register at our Site.

6. Personal Data Storage

The Personal Data you provide to us is retained for the term reasonably necessary to process your requests as described herein; however, we may need to retain archival copies of Personal Data as required by applicable laws. In such cases, your Personal Data will be stored in a readable format only, so that no further processing activities may be conducted.

7. Bulletin Boards

Bio-Rad encourages you to share your comments and questions with us and other users at our bulletin boards; however, any material, information, or other communication that you post to a bulletin board as a "comment" will be considered nonconfidential and nonproprietary. Please do not post on any bulletin board any personally identifiable information or any other information that you wish to keep confidential.

8. We May Contact You

E-Mail

If you choose to register at our Site, we will request your explicit consent to receive e-mails from Bio-Rad. If you wish to receive e-mails from us, notably informing you of new products, services, events, and other information related to Bio-Rad, please answer “Yes” to the corresponding question on the registration form. If you do not wish to receive e-mails from us, please answer “No”. If you have given your consent to receive e-mails, each time we send you an email, you can opt-out of receiving future emails. Alternatively, to change your status on our email list, you can go to My Account under Lab Admin to verify your User Profile on QCNet and make the desired changes, or contact your local office or submit an e-mail through Feedback.

Direct Mail

If you choose to register at our Site, we may send you periodic mailings, notably catalogs and other materials informing you of new products, services, events, and other information related to Bio-Rad. If you wish to change your status on our mailings list, you can click on My Account under Lab Admin to verify your User Profile on QCNet and make the desired changes, or contact your local office or submit an e-mail through Feedback.

No Ad Servers

We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies and no third-party banner ads will appear on our website.

9. Your Right to Access and Rectify Your Personal Data

If you are a registered user, you have, among other rights set forth by applicable law, the following rights: you can revoke your consent(s) or enforce your rights by contacting your local office or submitting an email through Feedback, and you can access, modify/update, or delete your Personal Data at anytime. Access to your information is available once you log in; simply go to your Profile page and modify your Personal Data as desired. If for any reason you are unable to access or modify your Personal Data, you can contact your local office or submit an email through Feedback.

If you do not wish for your Personal Data to be processed, transferred, and/or used as set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy during the registration process, or provide such Personal Data to Bio-Rad.

This Site is not intended for persons under 18 years of age. However, we do offer certain classroom and teacher materials through our educational programs; teachers and their students may use this Site and the materials that we provide through our educational programs at their own discretion. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children or minors, and we do not knowingly market our products or services to children or minors.

If you have any question or if you feel that this Site is not following its stated Privacy Policy, you may contact yourlocal officeas listed on the Contact page, or submit aFeedbackmessage.

If you do not wish for your Personal Data to be collected, transferred or otherwise processed as set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy during the registration process, or provide such Personal Data to Bio-Rad.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. ("Bio-Rad", "we", "us", "our") provides to residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) this Supplemental Website Privacy Statement ("Supplemental Statement"), which supplements and localizes the Privacy & Security Statements on the following Bio-Rad domains ("Statement"):

Bio-rad.com

Bio-rad-antibodies.com

QCNet.com

KnowItAll.com

KnowItAllAnyWare.com
Raindance.com

Diamed.com

Medizinische-diagnostik-dreieich.de
SpectraBase.com

Unless defined specifically in this Supplemental Statement, capitalized terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Statement.

Controller and EU Representative

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, California 94547, USA, operates the Site and is the controller of any personal data collected or otherwise processed on or through the Site. Information on our representatives in the EU can be requested by email at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com.

Purposes and Legal bases for processing

We process your personal data on several different legal bases, as follows:

1. Based on necessity to enter into or perform a contract with you - we need to process your personal data to enter into an agreement with you or a legal entity you represent, to perform contractual obligations, to respond to related questions and requests from you, perform sales transactions, or provide customer support;

2. Based on legitimate interests - we process personal data from you

for the security and safety of the Site, our IT connected to the Site and the users of the Site;

to detect and prevent fraud;

to protect and defend the rights or property of others, or our own rights and interests;

to track your activities on the Site, provided you have not opted out of such data processing. Detailed information about the web analytics solutions used on the Site can be found immediately below.

3. Based on compliance with legal obligations - we may need to process your personal data to comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements and to respond to lawful requests, court orders, and legal process;

4. Based on your prior consent - for placing cookies on your device (subject to certain exceptions) or sending marketing communications to you. Detailed information on our use of cookies and our marketing communications to you are set forth immediately below.

Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address

Evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to us

2 Years

You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser.

Marketo

901 Mariners Island Boulevard, Suite #500, San Mateo, CA 94404, USA

Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address

Evaluating your use of landing pages and email, compiling reports on activity for us and providing other services relating to landing page activity

2 Years

You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser.

S.L.I. Systems, Inc.

78 – 106 Manchester Street, Christchurch 8011

New Zealand

Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address

Site search capability on bio-rad-antibodies.com

2 Years

You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser.

Cookies Used On the Site

The Site makes use of cookies. Cookies are small text files downloaded by your Internet browser and stored on the device you use to access the Site (e.g., your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone). Depending on their purpose, cookies log specific user-related information such as your user preferences, authentication information, security parameters, data concerning the device you access the Site with and statistical information regarding your use of the Site. Where necessary during your visit of the Site or when revisiting the Site, your Internet browser transmits the cookies including the contained information back to the servers they were initially downloaded from or created by. The analysis and Processing of such information allows us to ensure the functionality of the Site, improve your online experience and optimize the structure and content of the Site.

The cookies we use can be categorized as follows:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site or of certain parts thereof. They either serve the sole purpose of carrying out network transmissions or are strictly necessary in order for us to provide an online service explicitly requested by you.

Analytical/Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to carry out web analytics or other forms of audience measuring such as recognizing and counting the number of visitors and seeing how visitors move around the Site. This helps us to improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are easily finding what they are looking for.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to the Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Loss of the information in these cookies may make our services less functional but would not prevent the Site from working.

Targeting/Profiling Cookies

These cookies record your visit to the Site and/or your use of the services, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Demographic Information Cookies

These cookies collect and retain limited demographic information such as date of birth and gender, if such information is provided by the user, which is tied to anonymous identifiers and may be referenced by the system for some tailored advertising.

The following cookies may be used in Bio-Rad domains:

Cookie Name

Who Places the Cookie?

Cookie Category

Expiry

Purpose

JSESSIONID

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Facilitates user session for navigating bio-rad.com

JSESSIONID_PRIMEPCR

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Facilitates user session for PrimePCR Custom Assay Builder

JSESSIONID_STERLING

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Facilitates user session for ecommerce actions

JSESSIONID_DESIGNER

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Facilitates user session for Digital Assay feature

JSESSIONID_FRGTPWD

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

SessionID for forgot password

JSESSIONID_IEF

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

SessionID for IEF

eVCntryLang

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

1 year (reset every login)

Enables country language selection

isProc

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Identifies commerce channel

SampleCookie

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Checks if user has cookies enabled

sid

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

OKTA (SSO) session id

proximity_*

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

1 year

OKTA(SSO) specific cookie

ADRUM_BT1

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

OKTA(SSO) specific cookie

ADRUM_BTa

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

OKTA(SSO) specific cookie

t

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

OKTA(SSO) specific cookie

bio-rad:msgids

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year (reset every save)

Used to track dismissed messages

PreviouslyViewedCookie

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year

Used to track previously visited pages

HealthCareCookie

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year

France healthcare cookie for CDG

COOKIE_PLACEHOLDER

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year

Cookie used to store preferences for EU cookie policy

NEW_COOKIE_PLACEHOLDER

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year

Cookie used to store preferences for IT cookie policy

CartID_

Bio-Rad

Functional

1 year

Current cart for anonymous users

ASPSESSIONIDQSATSRCQ

Bio-Rad

Mandatory

Session

Used by sites written with Microsoft ASP technologies for session management.

WT_FPC

Webtrends

Performance

2 years

Webtrends performance analytics

ACOOKIE

Webtrends

Performance

2 years

Webtrends performance analytics

BIGipServerabdweb_mch_https

Marketo

Performance

Session

Marketo munchkin tracking cookie

_mkto_trk

Marketo

Performance

2 years

Marketo munchkin tracking cookie

AWSELB

Amazon

Mandatory

Session

Associated with Amazon web hosting services for routing client requests on the server.

fr

Fcebook

Performance

Varying

Facilitates analytics for Facebook plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser.

fsr.*

Foresee

Performance

Session

Foresee survey tracking

_4c_ (and more)

Foresee

Performance

2 years

Foresee survey tracking

_ga, _gat*, _gid

Google

Performance

Varying

Google Analytics

__ut*

Google

Marketing

Varying

Google analytics

SIDCC

Google

Mandatory

3 months

Google recaptcha

IDE

Google

Marketing

Varying

Google Adwords Remarketing

SLI1_XXX

SLI Systems

Mandatory

30 min

Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com

SLI2_XXX

SLI Systems

Mandatory

Session

Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com

SLI4_XXX

SLI Systems

Mandatory

6 months

Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com

SLIBeacon

SLI Systems

Mandatory

2 Years

Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com

_sp_id.0bc5,

intercom-lou-rycucve3,

us_lang

Usersnap

Performance

Varying

Facilitates user feedback on spectrabase.com

APISID, LOGIN_INFO, PREF, SAPISID, YSC

YouTube

Performance

Varying

Facilitates analytics for YouTube plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser.

HSID, SID, SSID, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YouTube

Mandatory

Varying

Used for session state management for YouTube plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser.

You may influence the scope and extent to which we use cookies when you visit our Site. In particular, you may prevent cookies from being stored on your device by adjusting the respective settings on your Internet browser. For more information on how to do so in the settings of your particular Internet browser, please see the following information:

However, please be aware that this might render certain functions of our Site inoperable or more difficult to use. Depending on the Internet browser you use, you might also be able to specifically reject third-party cookies. In this context, please note, however, that third parties might still have access to your Personal Information to the extent that such information is logged by first-party cookies.

Marketing Communications to You

On Bio-Rad domains, you can register to receive newsletters or similar information on our products or services or the products or services of our affiliated companies. As part of the registration process, we may ask you to provide us with certain mandatory information. Such information includes first name, last name, email address, country, and organization name.

When receiving a registration, we log and store the date/time of registration and the IP address the registration was received from. This solely serves evidentiary purposes for consent management.

When registering to receive newsletters or similar information, you need to explicitly declare your consent in our processing of your personal data for this purpose. You are under no obligation to provide such consent and, if you choose to do so nonetheless, you may withdraw your consent at any time, with future effect and for any or no reason by following the unsubscribe link contained in any email communication to you.

RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

For the following purposes, we may disclose your personal data to the following third parties, as required or permitted by applicable law:

Who Is your Personal Data Disclosed To?

What Is the Purpose Underlying the Disclosure?

Companies affiliated with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. including:

Registered Channel Partners

Regional distributors contracted to facilitate sales and customer support processes.

To facilitate the Plant a Tree program process of planting a tree on the behalf of requesting customers

DATA TRANSFERS TO RECIPIENTS OUTSIDE OF THE EU/EEA

We and many of our affiliated companies and third-party service providers are located outside the EU/EEA in jurisdictions that are not subject to an unqualified adequacy decision by the EU Commission finding them to provide an adequate level of protection of personal data, i.e. a level of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms that is essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU.

However, to ensure an adequate level of protection of your personal data, we enter into data processing and data transfer agreements with our affiliated companies and third-party service providers outside of the EU/EEA that incorporate the provisions of the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU Commission or implement other appropriate safeguards with them. You can ask for a copy of such appropriate safeguards by contacting us at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have implemented appropriate retention periods for your personal data collected or otherwise processed on or through the Site as set forth in our records management policy. Personal data processed in the context of a contract with you will be retained by us for the term of the contract and for a reasonable time afterwards as might be required to determine and settle any related claims. Where our processing of your personal data is based on legitimate interests or the compliance with legal obligations, it will be deleted as soon as the underlying purpose has expired. Personal data processed based on your consent will be deleted if and when you withdraw such consent.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Subject to the conditions set out in the applicable law, you have, without limitation, the rights to

inquire whether and what kind of personal data we hold about you and how it is processed, and to access or request copies of such personal data,

request the correction or supplementation of personal data about you that is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date in light of the purposes underlying the processing, or to

obtain the erasure of personal data no longer necessary for the purposes underlying the processing, processed based on withdrawn consent, processed for legitimate interests that, in the context of your objection, do not prove to be compelling, or processed in noncompliance with applicable legal requirements. In addition, you have, subject to the conditions set out in the applicable law and without limitation, the rights to

request us to restrict the processing of personal data in certain situations where you feel its processing is inappropriate,

object, in certain circumstances, to the processing of personal data for legitimate interests, and to

request portability of personal data that you have actively or passively provided to us (which does not include data derived or inferred from the collected data), where the processing of such personal Data is based on consent or a contract with you and is carried out by automated means. In case of concerns, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent local data protection authority.

You may exercise the above mentioned rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and data portability by contacting us under dataprivacy@bio-rad.com, even to the extent that such claims relate to the processing of personal data by one or more of the data recipients identified in this privacy statement.

YOUR PROVISION OF PERSONAL DATA TO US

Your use of the Site and your provision of personal data to us in the process is purely voluntary on your part. Subject to your sole discretion, you can, at any point, stop to use the Site or, where applicable, opt out of certain data processing operations while on the Site as described in this Supplemental Statement. An exception applies if an to the extent that you want to enter into or perform a contract with us on or through the Site. In this event, providing us with your related personal information is necessary for us to be able to enter into the contract with or provide any contractual services to you.

EFFECTIVE DATE AND CHANGES

This Supplemental Statement is effective May 25, 2018. We may make changes, including material changes, to this Supplemental Statement from time to time. You should review the Supplemental Statement each time you visit our Site to learn of any changes.

If you have questions about this Supplemental Statement, please contact us at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com .